“The soul was not cured,
it was as full as a clothes closet
of dresses that did not fit.”

“There are women in my closet, hanging on the hangers. a different woman for each suit, each dress, each pair of shoes. I hoard clothes. My makeup spills from the bathroom drawers, and there are different women for different lipsticks.”

“So this, then, is the chamber of the hootchy-kootch. Its bathtub full of orchids. Its closet full of smoke.”

“A sweet disorder in the dress
Kindles in clothes a wantonness.”

“Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.”

“Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.”

“The key to a successful restaurant is dressing girls in degrading clothes.”

“The flower has no weekday self, dressed as it always is in Sunday clothes.”

“People dressed in a certain kind of clothing are never wrong. Also they never fart.”

“The most beautiful clothes that can dress a woman are the arms of the man she loves.”